Navratri Day 5: Khara Pongal 🤍

Navratri Day 5 - 🤍 The colour of the day is white 🤍, which represents peace and purity.🤍 It also represents knowledge, intelligence and enlightenment. 🤍 Maa Skandami, which means 'mother of Skanda (Kartikeya)', is honoured on the fifth day of Navratri. She is the fifth incarnation of Goddess Durga and represents compassion and motherhood. She is dressed in yellow and rides on a lion.🙏🌹

💚💚Khara Pongal is a rice lentil dish that is often prepared in south Indian homes to offer to GODS during puja. Today's offering for Devi 🙏🌹💚💚

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Ingredients:

· Yellow moong dal - ½ cup

· Rice – ½ cup

· Water – 3 ¼ to 3 ½ cups

· Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

· Salt to taste

· Ghee – 2 tbsp

· Jeera – 1 tsp

· Pepper corns – 10-12 nos.

· Cashew nuts – 1 tbsp

· Ginger – 1 inch (grated)

· Green chilies – 2-3 (slit)

· Curry leaves – 1 sprig

· Coriander leaves for garnishing

· Coconut chunks – 1 tbsp (optional)

Method:

· Wash yellow moong dal and rice thoroughly.

· Take a pressure cooker add water, turmeric powder, salt and 1 tsp ghee. Let it boil and now put the lid of the cooker. Pressure cook on medium flame just for 1 whistle.

· Let the cooker depressurize naturally and check out the consistency. If it is dry add hot water and keep it on low flame.

· Take a small pan add ghee, jeera, pepper corns and cashew nuts. Fry it on medium flame. Now add the grated ginger, green chilies, coconut chunks, curry leaves and coriander leaves.

· Pour the tadka and turn off the flame of the cooker. Mix it well.

· Cover the lid of the cooker for 2-3 mins.

· Khara Pongal is ready to be served.